luiza-w-ogrodzie
11.10.04, 10:53
W skrocie:
Niemiecki Sad Federalny uchwalil podobno (bo kopia wyroku jest niedostepna
mediom), ze regionalny zakaz noszenia chust przez muzulmanskie nauczycielki w
szkolach publicznych musi obowiazywac rowniez chrzescijanskie siostry zakonne.
Link do artykulu po angielsku:
www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/11/1097406465436.html
Artykul:
Nuns hit by headscarf rule
October 11, 2004 - 10:57AM
A German federal court has reportedly ruled that a regional ban on Muslim
teachers wearing headscarves in public schools must also apply to Christian
nuns.
The Federal Administrative Court has ruled that a law passed in April in the
south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg was unfair because it only applied
to Muslim women yet permitted Christian symbols, reports news weekly Der
Spiegel.
Nuns, who often work in public schools in the predominantly Roman Catholic
Black Forest region of the state, will now be required to remove their habits
before entering the classroom.
"Exceptions for certain forms of religiously motivated clothing in certain
regions are out of the question," the federal judges of the court based in
Leipzig, eastern Germany wrote in their ruling as quoted by Der Spiegel.
A copy of the ruling could not be obtained today.
The author of the state legislation, law professor Ferdinand Kirchhof, told
Der Spiegel that nuns' habits were considered to be "professional uniforms"
in the region and thus exempt from the religious symbols law.
Germany's highest tribunal, the constitutional court, ruled in September 2003
that Baden-Wuerttemberg was wrong to forbid a Muslim teacher from wearing a
headscarf in the classroom.
But it said Germany's 16 states could legislate independently to ban
religious apparel if it was deemed to unduly influence children, which has
subsequently created a patchwork quilt of varying rules throughout the
country.
Muslim groups have fiercely criticised the bans as compromising their freedom
of religious expression. Germany is home to more than three million Muslims,
making Islam the country's third religion.
The German state laws tend to stop short of limits set by controversial new
legislation in neighbouring France which outlaws Islamic headscarves and
other religious insignia in state schools outright, applying to both teachers
and students.
AFP
